Inner Verses

(Paperback)

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From the author of To Give it Up (Sun and Moon Press) which was selected by Barbara Guest for the National Poetry Series, comes Pam Rehms Inner Verses, a book of deep gravitas that belies its slim, portable volume.

Comprising lyric poems that are attentive to the underneath mind / growing more and more / quieted, Inner Verses is a collection that understands the ways in which time is mutable and brief. Here, we experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two. In this way and with exacting tenderness, Pam Rehm creates poems that relish solitude and yet are generous enough to carry us as company.

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"These poems have an angelic quality, a solid invisibility that buoys up the lines fromunder and around them. There is neither an I nor a Thou within range, but both ofthese seem to be balancing Rehm's thoughts from end to end." Fanny Howe onSmall Works

Pam Rehm possess[es] a lyric sensibility of deep, genuine reach. DanBeachy-Quick

"Poetry is the antagonist of denial. Complicating the familiar worldpurely with the evidence of eye and insight, it insists upon the Spirit of things,even as life desolates our spirits with coarse familiarity. Pam Rehm, in thismagnificent book of Showings, reveals new content and new contours in thebreaking day. Her voice is a guide and guarantor."Donald Revell

Author Bio

Pam Rehm is the author of Time Will Show (Shearsman Books, 2018), The Larger Nature (Flood Editions, 2011), Small Works (Flood Editions, 2005), Gone to Earth (Flood Editions, 2001), To Give It Up (Sun & Moon Press, 1994), and The Garment in which No One Had Slept (Burning Deck Press, 1993). She lives in Manhattan.